Sir Charles Mackerras que recentemente nos deixou foi um músico extraordinariamente versátil que realizou sempre performances de primeira qualidade a partir das composições desde Bach até Britten e foi um aclamado intérprete de Mozart e Janacek em particular. Esta gravação utilizou 26 oboés, para um conjunto total de 70 instrumentos.

• Hi-Q Records Supercuts
• Vinil Audiófilo 180 Gramas
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Originais Analógicas da EMI
• Masterizado nos Estúdios Abbey Road
• Arte e grafismo da capa original

"Corte nos Estúdios Abbey Road a partir das Master Tapes Originais Analógicas num lathe Neumann VMS82 alimentado com um sinal prévio através de um deck Studer A80 especialmente modificado com uma cabeça de avanço especial, permitindo realizar um corte num processo completamente analógico. Prensagem realizada com as máquinas originais da EMI pela The Vinyl Factory em Hayes, Inglaterra."

He also often remade recordings of works associated with him over his long career, like his 1962 recording of 'Pineapple Poll' - music by Sullivan he arranged into a ballet, and in 1959, the small British label Pye asked him to record Handel's 'Music for the Royal Fireworks', which was met with critical acclaim for 'attempting to reproduce the sound Handel would have heard, rather than the smoother orchestral arrangements usually played at that time'.

The recording used some 26 oboes, creating an ensemble of over 70 players. Ever at the vanguard of authentic performance rather than authentic instruments, Mackerras took advantage of more modern recording techniques by re-recording the Handel at Abbey Road for EMI, again with augmented wind band that Handel would have used for the original open air performance in Green Park.

In the original 1977 review Robin Golding of the GRAMOPHONE wrote:

"...for sheer splendour of sound the 'martial musick' favoured by George II is hors concours; and, as fond as I am of the [Makerras's] old Pye recording, I have to admit that the new EMI one is even more thrilling..."

Lista de Faixas:

Lado A
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
(Concerto Grosso in D major)
1. Overture
2. Bouree
3. Largo alla Siciliana
4. La Rejouissance
5. Minuet I
6. Minuet II

Lado B
Handel: Concerto in F 'a due cori' No.2 in F
1. Overture (Pomposo - Allegro)
2. A tempo giusto
3. Largo
4. Allegro ma non troppo
5. A tempo ordinario
6. Concerto No.1 in F (ed. Mackerras) Largo - Allegro
7. Concerto No.3 in D (ed. Mackerras) Largo - Allegro - Allegro ma non troppo

London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras

Gravado no No.1 Studio, Abbey Road a 8 de Outubro e 19 de Dezembro 1976
Produzido pelo lendário Suvi Raj Grubb
O engenheiro foi Robert Gooch

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